Digital Product Manager. Permanent Full time

Job no: 506692

Employment type: Full Time

Location: Australia (location flexible)

Categories: Information \& Communication Technology

About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better. If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Permanent full time position that can be located anywhere in Australia where you have full flexibility to work from home or one of our offices. Join our dynamic national team as Digital Product Manager, where you'll lead a team of digital design and digital software developers to proactively engage with the business to develop and implement an innovative solution through a combination of community sourcing of problems and active research. The immediate focus will be on developing a product roadmap and overseeing incremental execution of the roadmap to extend an existing mobile application to integrate with a new Client Management System and to introduce AI capabilities. Through a collaborative approach, you will develop and embed knowledge and capability in the business to consider, value and enable innovative approaches and tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with and across the business to unearth business problems, understand their impact and raise awareness with relevant stakeholders
• Build and manage capability in Product Management and provide leadership and direction and empower team to execute against defined prioritised problems.
• Facilitate consensus of business problems with stakeholders from a variety of areas across LWB.
• Develop business cases and costing for solutions.
• Develop a product roadmap defined as a backlog of features for our digital products that will enhance frontline service delivery.
• Support the team and project leaders in the showcasing, release and deployment of incremental features.
• Present roadmaps and outputs from work already completed to executive level governance forums.
• Actively measure the progress of multiple concurrent tests and vigorously defend the integrity of the tests to ensure LWB learns from experiments.
• Actively pursue learning about new approaches to relevant business problems and technologies.
• Develop methods for prioritisation of problems to enable constant release of business value both in learning and tangible business value uplift.

Skills \& Experience:

• Tertiary level qualification in a related discipline.
• Significant experience in customer centred design with a focus on end-to-end experience design.
• Demonstrated experience in turning research into tangible, actionable business outcomes especially through digital products with a focus on mobile apps.
• Experience working with Amazon Bedrock or similar AI framework in leveraging AI agentic and orchestration to existing data sources.
• Experience working in technology and business optimisation projects with multi-disciplinary co-located teams.
• Working knowledge of a variety of facilitation and analysis techniques such as Value Stream Analysis, Design Thinking, Process mapping, Story Mapping, Systems Thinking, MVP development and Change management.
• Ability to support organisation-wide initiatives that support Life Without Barriers’ Purpose and Values.
• The ability to influence and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders including peers, employees, and external organisations.
• Strong verbal communication skills and presentation ability.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.

Benefits

• Join a team that encourages innovative thinking
• Challenging position working in a modern, best practice ICT environment
• Work where you work best – whether that’s at home or one of our offices.
• Excellent tax benefits \& monthly rostered days off

How to Apply

Include your resume and cover letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries relating to the position contact [email protected]. Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can contact [email protected] .

Applications close at midnight AEST 29 June 2026.

Advertised: 22 Jun 2026 AUS Eastern Standard Time

Applications close: 29 Jun 2026 23:55 AUS Eastern Standard Time